From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OSX Mail app =?utf-8?Q?=E2=86=92?= Emacs ? Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2017 09:07:59 +0200 Message-ID: <878tl94khc.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496473753 23260 195.159.176.226 (3 Jun 2017 07:09:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 07:09:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 25.2.50.1 Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 03 09:09:06 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dH3BJ-0005VJ-SP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 09:09:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52760 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dH3BJ-0003e8-ST for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 03:09:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34167) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dH3As-0003dp-0U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 03:08:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dH3Ao-00062H-S3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 03:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:58971) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dH3Ao-0005xk-22 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 03:08:34 -0400 Original-Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC759206C5; Sat, 3 Jun 2017 03:08:31 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 03 Jun 2017 03:08:31 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= cc:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=RWdLdloZf6wqEv5hHJ1gdM6fVOtRVluFrcvO/qcii n0=; b=dwfCL9WCL0Rcn2MqSP0TWSeHf6uVwOyDPuET55Fegnkh3J1R2mCQD9+8W 32rWo8q7czgJ+I6CPY9QxEv7CrE7lmgiGIYkHds/Ggjhvc4hD3Krl1QhND6df33d dG0Mt4DE+SPAOndf9zt0CDicU4/bFobQI5tDySXuXesZA1PaCCbGudS8TZnCi2QF mBhLbBAUS5J2KYGGPpT6gaMR/pzn0daiCGAT58madrLqJN8yNydMngxXruhYMPAf KSX5ILEQuaEgce5xzXu0yDPl4hQc1UysJESBlZeqVGKgtay7saaRG5yowcKWt16I XmbOjzbBAwS8d3C7wr8RlvzaRePYQ== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=RWdLdloZf6wqEv5hHJ 1gdM6fVOtRVluFrcvO/qciin0=; b=cdvXyMzlXroUCwZjXKZJDl0m1u2tYNmMtI v/B5OJUjDGayDD0eap9CMSbJKhgVh/BAQvUJ+iAgaePnCPGhBkG3w+CjTgj2kTb/ gI7k9+oXPLLatcOi4HS5UOaQqC9bYYrCy8/DaVN7q69XHrw6As0ROd50xP/IQLoW c8SC2nbzzdQMwzS51Z8SXracYX5GXnNSvexpeye9pt63iAY4MgVPnmVK/bIwg7RH b7aGnayVVK/AP561KHICC3PEP8IVnuZOcvAIZT5wOs0xVU4uZVvyXnutd9TdpQKS 2ppzRbtRa2ClrEA0KDuXcAaqaPFA/xC3oTc2qHnLGPxpo/4trEXA== X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: IgVWFsc8XxLH2EG6RmLjeCEoCtuaj60sD1Kv3cGcPPW+ 1496473711 Original-Received: from IdeaPad.messagingengine.com (x4dbb2276.dyn.telefonica.de [77.187.34.118]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2E915247DD; Sat, 3 Jun 2017 03:08:31 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 66.111.4.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113336 Archived-At: On Sat, Jun 03 2017, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > If I wanted to transition my mailing activity from OSX's Mail > app to Emacs, what would be the best path to do that ? > > I see plenty of tutorials on how to *start* using mail in Emacs, > but not on how to move one's thousands of mails to a structure > that Emacs can access... > > Any hints ? That probably depends on what mailer you want to use. Personally, I never got the hang of Gnus, but I'm very happy with mu4e. Mu4e only reads maildir format, so you'd have to convert your mbox files to maildir. A quick Google search reveals there's a script mb2md.pl that can take care of that. (I also needed to convert from mbox to maildir when I started using mu4e, but I was using Mutt at the time, which handles maildir as well as mbox, so I used that for the conversion.) Since mu/mu4e doesn't talk to any remote servers, you'll need to set up something to retrieve your email. In the case of IMAP, that would be OfflineIMAP or mbsync. If POP is all you need, you'd be looking at fetchmail and perhaps procmail (but don't take my word for it, since I haven't used POP in well over a decade.) If you want to use notmuch, the procedure is pretty much the same. Gnus, IIUC, can handle more mailbox formats, so you may get away without converting anything. There are other mailers for Emacs (Mew and Wanderlust come to mind), but I know even less about those than Gnus. HTH -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments